A current mix of this song. Still to find and add the right reverb sound for the lead vocal, amongst other things, but this gives you an idea.

Where Were You That Night - 21 May 2021.mp3

A live demo (no overdubs/multitracking, with piano and vocals performed by myself) of a new track from my upcoming EP.

On My Own Once More - live demo

Today when I travelled to Torquay to teach two boys guitar lessons, their parents and they were about to fly back to their homeland because the father's sister had just been killed in a car crash. I wrote this song on the drive home.

Bring Back My Sister, Bring Back My Friend

Today I went online and heard about Paris. This song came to me. May we each take the personal responsibility to nurture and cultivate the only thing that can truly solve these problems: a peaceful, loving heart.

The News Today

A piano trio that I wrote as part of my finals in Cambridge. There is a fourth (final) movement that was not recorded, and unfortunately the recording of the first movement stopped, so I have had to make a botch edit of the recapitulation, alas!

Josh Michaels on violin, Alex Maynard on cello, Henry Tozer on piano.

Piano Trio - Movement II

Piano Trio - Movement I (mended Recording - Original Recapitulation Missing)

A piece I wrote as part of my finals at Cambridge, for ensemble.

Inspired by the Buddhist concept of mandalas...

Entering The Charnel Grounds

Water Scene - Tension Build

Rose's Theme (piano Solo)

Main Theme - Bill's Song (My Blind Brother)

Final Theme, Closing Credits (Bill + Rose)

Atmospheric Soundtrack

Dear Leonard

Old friend from the mountain on your parallel path
Your body is no longer the home for your heart
But you had scattered it already throughout your whole life
The ashes of the lonely, the elegy of strife
In the mirror of violence, naked you stood
Shattering clinging to both bad and good
Your speech is a knife to despair and to pride
In your desert of truth there is nowhere to hide
You sing for the weary, the broken, the lame
You speak to the longing, the anger, the shame
Your voice is a worn-out coat in the rain
A constant companion for the heart filled with pain

My love, it sits in your armchair again
Battered and hungry, resigned from the game
But it's ringing those bells before the lord of song
Singing Hallelujah despite all the wrong
Dear Leonard, you have given life to the dead
You dined with the devil, you made his bed
And even though he cried that he couldn't be blessed
In your chamber of love you laid him to rest
And now it's your turn to journey on
To sing to a new crowd your liberating song
Thank you for all that you lost and you won
You live forever now the battle is done.

Dear Leonard

Where Were You That Night (w Fm Vox, In Prog.)

One of the singles from my upcoming album...

Where Were You That Night - January 2018 (6)

Although the title of this work came only after its completion, it holds relevance not just for the musical content but also for the circumstances surrounding it. I had been looking into serialism and systematic methods of pitch selection, and although I have great love for much music based on these principles, its aesthetics and formal structures were getting me down; I felt restricted and did not feel I could compose freely the music that was part of myself under such bases. So one day I was in a small practice room in London at a rather ropey grand piano, and I simply played and wrote down what I liked. It was through this intuitive approach that Clearing Mists was created, and interestingly for me I would analyse parts sometime after their initial birth, and notice connections and theoretical patterns which were inherent; form developed through juxtaposition of apparently unrelated ideas, and occasional repetition helped give the piece shape. Although fairly simplistic in some ways, which is perhaps a danger of a 'freely-composed' work, I feel there is a unity and individualism to it.

Played by John Reid of the Aurora Orchestra, for the BBC Proms 2011.

Clearing Mists

Although the title of this work came only after its completion, it holds relevance not just for the musical content but also for the circumstances surrounding it. I had been looking into serialism and systematic methods of pitch selection, and although I have great love for much music based on these principles, its aesthetics and formal structures were getting me down; I felt restricted and did not feel I could compose freely the music that was part of myself under such bases. So one day I was in a small practice room in London at a rather ropey grand piano, and I simply played and wrote down what I liked. It was through this intuitive approach that Clearing Mists was created, and interestingly for me I would analyse parts sometime after their initial birth, and notice connections and theoretical patterns which were inherent; form developed through juxtaposition of apparently unrelated ideas, and occasional repetition helped give the piece shape. Although fairly simplistic in some ways, which is perhaps a danger of a 'freely-composed' work, I feel there is a unity and individualism to it.

Played by Henry Tozer.

Clearing Mist

I Am Here (2 Dec 2019 Mixdown)

Where Were You That Night - January 2017 (4)

Studio demo of one of the songs for the upcoming album... Thanks to the wonderful Ben & Alfie Weedon for contributing violin and bass, respectively!

Where Were You That Night?

Freelance musician based in London, about to release debut album.

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